Cancer, as a major global public health challenge, is characterized by complex mechanisms underlying its onset and progression. For a long time, processes within the tumor microenvironment (TME)—such as immunity, inflammation, and angiogenesis—have been extensively studied and considered key determinants of tumor biological behavior. In recent year...
Immune cells undergo cytokine-driven polarization in response to various stimuli, which alters their transcriptional profiles and functional states. This dynamic process plays a central role in immune responses in both health and disease. However, there has been a lack of systematic methods to assess cytokine-driven polarization in single-cell RNA ...
Multimodal Learning Reveals Genotype–Phenotype Dynamics Background The complex relationship between genotype and phenotype has long been a central question in biology. Genotype refers to the genetic information of an organism, while phenotype is the manifestation of this genetic information in a specific environment. Although Wilhelm Johannsen intr...
Gene-level Single-cell Trajectory Alignment: A New Method Based on Dynamic Programming The advent of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology has dramatically advanced biological research, enabling scientists to observe dynamic changes at the single-cell level over time and space. However, comparing such dynamics across samples or conditio...
Single-Cell and Spatially Resolved Interactomics of Tooth-Associated Keratinocytes: Exploring the Role of Structural Immunity in Periodontitis Background Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the periodontal tissues and impacts billions of people globally, potentially resulting in tooth loss. It is primarily caused by polybac...
Exploring Cervical Adenocarcinoma: Epidemiology, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges, and Pathogenetic Mechanisms Academic Background Cervical cancer poses a significant threat to women’s health globally, particularly in developing countries. The main histological types of cervical cancer include squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and cervical adenoca...
Discovery of a New Immunotherapy Target for Ewing Sarcoma Background Introduction Ewing sarcoma (Ewing’s sarcoma, EWS) is a common pediatric bone cancer, accounting for approximately 2% of childhood cancers. Despite significant advances in immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and CAR-T cell therapy in various cancers, their efficacy in Ewing sarcoma...
Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Study of Meningeal Solitary Fibrous Tumors Academic Background Meningeal Solitary Fibrous Tumors (SFTs) are rare mesenchymal tumors originating from the meninges of the central nervous system (CNS). Although SFTs are histologically similar to other meningeal tumors (such as meningiomas), their unique clinical...
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common type of leukemia in adults. Although most AML patients achieve complete remission after standard chemotherapy, refractory and relapsed disease remain a significant challenge. Over the past decade, immunotherapy has been widely applied in cancer treatment, particularly chimeric antigen receptor T-cell ...
Academic Background Diabetes is a global health issue affecting over 500 million people. Both type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) share the common feature of a significant reduction in the number of functional insulin-secreting beta cells. Therefore, restoring or increasing beta cell mass is considered a key strategy in diabetes treatme...